Earth is a planet of environmental extremes, ranging from freezing cold to scorching heat. With only a few special cases, humans live mainly in temperate regions, but a wide-ranging array of other creatures flourish in the inhospitable.
May 10, 2021 05:19 PM EDT
According to new research from Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, birds are capable of changing their culture to become very efficient. Culture in animals is known to be any behavior they learn from one another, shared by participants of the group, and continued over generations.
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Great Tits
Cultural traditions are known to be found in most animal groups, both dolphins and whales, primates, birds, and rodents. Great tits give a classic instance of animal culture. Birds in a town in Great Britain in the 1920s were noticed to open the foil tops of milk bottles in order to steal some cream without permission.
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The flashy colors of some butterflies could exhibit their speed and activeness, much like a cover of sharp yellow color on a sports car. Recent research indicates birds can learn to understand these visible signs, avoiding not just butterflies they have failed to catch in the past but as well as lookalikes species.
The study offers so much vital proof to date for the notion of elusive mimicry, a method in which animals defend themselves against predators by matching to the colors or structures of agile relatives. Initially suggested over 60 years ago, the theory has been a challenge to experiment with.